Hockey Tip from our friends at Hockey West Island

NEVER GET RID OF THE PUCK BLINDLY Throwing it away blindly is never the right answer! If they intercept or recover your blind pass you are a long way away from your mistake. You might not have time to get to the guy with the puck before he does something to create a scoring chance. If you make the guy take the puck off of you, you are right beside the man who now has the puck and you can check him and try and get it back. You have to have eye contact with your teammates before passing them the puck. If they’re not looking at you, don’t pass! Can’t pass? Keep the puck, protect it, you have the puck, the opponent doesn’t. Don’t just give it to him; make them try to take it off of you! At least he isn’t wide open.